I liked Squigl, the technovation project (teen mentoring doing live tech work), the yoga presentation, and the musical presentation...really, they were all pretty good. Funny crowd, although a very wet and musty smelling crowd given all the rain. Went with Ming.

"You do have a responsibility to make sure your audience doesn’t go do things that you don’t want to represent as your own brand"

These things don't seem quite equivalent and the language makes it feel almost like an equivalency despite dropping alt-right in there. There's not an equivalency between alt-right and I-don't-want-to-be-assaulted... "While Gamergate went on to spawn and populate the alt-right and shape conservative language commonly used today, the women affected went on to support and publicize the #metoo movement and influence liberal messaging."

This is an interesting take on the lack of permanency despite an online culture. "Another hurdle for his legacy is the fact that much of gamer lore, including about Bain, is oral, social -- it is told through videos, live streams, podcasts, group skype calls, team chat over headsets and in-person at tournaments. The majority of his history, like most top gamers and personalities, is not written down in an easily accessible format. It is in stories friends tell each other."

I'm pretty sure this is not the lesson. I found the article to be an interesting take on Gamergate and an individual's place in it until I got to the punchline.

"...if there is a lesson in all of this, it’s that one must make peace and settle any internet beef you have with feminists while you’re still living. History is written by the victors, after all."

PHILIPPA: as much as you love taking money and property away from rich white people?

RAYMOND: LOL

PHILIPPA: LOL

RAYMOND: maybe next year we’ll buy Portugal

By all accounts, he lagged behind his wife when it came to social and emotional maturity (pretty normal for teenage boys, who apparently haven’t changed much since the Middle Ages)

so many fucking cousins in this story, sometimes quite literally

Meanwhile, in the east, two forces were preparing to invade Naples: the Hungarians, and the Black Death. Only one of them would make people poop blood (presumably; I mean, I don’t know what kind of spooky shit Louis of Hungary was capable of).

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I'm a technology manager for a legal company in Minnesota. My background is a lead software developer specializing in C# and SQL Server, but dabbling in Java, Perl, PHP, Ruby, Python, and other things (and coming from a self-taught VB background). Often I worry about z/OS boxes and how to get data off of them, although recently I'm more in the small-ish app space. However, my educational background is in Tudor/Stuart history, English (literature) and English (creative writing - I did my thesis on dystopias and my Master's degree is from Hamline University - go Pipers [my siblings have three other degrees from Hamline]).